Handstamp

Handstamps tell a story This cover illustrates one of the reasons many people enjoy postal history - postal markings can tell a story, and there's often an element of mystery.

Handstamp - a stamp or overprint which has been applied to paper singly and without mechanical means; a hand-held apparatus for printing that is struck on an ink pad and then pressed on paper. The die may be of metal, rubber, or wood.

Handstamp Strictly speaking, the implement used to apply a postmark by hand, but often used loosely to signify the postmark itself. Historically, some overprints were applied by means of handstamps.

Handstamp A type of postal marking, such as a cancellation on a stamp, which is applied by hand rather than by using a machine. 4 ...

Handstamp: A cancellation or auxiliary marking applied by hand to a cover. Also the device used to apply the cancellation or marking.

Handstamp - 1) a hand-held device used by a postal worker to cancel a stamp or apply a postal marking 2) the impression left by a handstamp on a cover.

Handstamp A hand-held device for printing that is struck on an ink pad, and then applied to paper. To print with that type of device. Name given to the impression or postmark imprinted.

Handstamp RFD Territorial Markings Back to Postmarks At the height of the postcard "craze", around 1907-1915, some of the Western States were still territories; Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907; Arizona and New Mexico in 1912; ...

Handstamped Impressions With all types of handstamps, the sharpness and blackness of the impression vanes with the kind and amount of ink of the pad, the smoothness and hardness of the surface beneath the stamps, ...

BACKSTAMP - A handstamp applied to the back of a letter, usually indicating date of transit or receipt at the office of destination.

Cachet - Special handstamp (often a 'rubber stamp'), manuscript note, adhesive label or printed design borne by a postal item and confirming unusually a particular route or an interesting usage; e.g. a first flight on a particular route.

19: Ante Meridiem, morning, coded time handstamps of 1890s. 20: Gibraltar, Imperial Censorship Code, WW II. 21: time of departure for Zeppelin flights. a: (Fr.) of, to, by, at Å: one-letter post office name, Norway. A$: Australian dollars. A.

4: (Fr.) Armeé Britannique 1748 British Army handstamp, for Austrian army, usually on mail from Germany; carried by Thurn and Taxis to Belgium; see: Thurn and Taxis. 4: Russia surcharge, Cyrillic for Vladivostok Issue, Far Eastern Republic, 1923. A.

- Circular Date Handstamp, the prefered type of cancellation for most modern postage stamps. C.R. - Caledonian Railway. C.T.O. - Cancelled to order.

The 15½ mm x 1½ mm handstamp is possibly Samuel Type D9a, a designation he gives to "a small group of overprints of similar appearance but of different dimensions to Type D9.

Censored Mail -- A cover bearing a handstamp or label indicating that the envelope has been opened and read by a censor. Centering -- The relative position of the design of a stamp in relation to its margins.

'' Handstamped on a stamp, the T indicates the stamp's use as a postage due. Handstamped on a cover, it indicates that postage due has been charged. Several countries have used regular stamps with a perforated initial T as postage dues.

Cachet. An impression generally applied to the face of an envelope by rubber handstamp or metal to commemorate an event. Cameo Type. Stamps with the featured subject (portrait) upraised against a dark solid background, just as in the normal cameo.

A very interesting entire showing various datestamps and handstamps on front, indicating the routes taken and rates paid.

See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Catalog